The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It was of course Jefferson’s gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the “right” answer to every moral question.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends…the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion… — George will Copy Share Image
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that. “That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?” “Yep.” Eloquence ’R’… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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